“Where are we going?” “Forward” “I’ve heard it’s lovely” 👏👏👏

Mirror, mirror on the wall You could just lie It’s very zeitgeisty #Reflection #vss365

#LookAndSee 260 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/A-qnnTeKqsk

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 26 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Second B-side of the single “Rocket”, legend has it that it’s the Def Leppard tour manager on the strangled vocals. youtu.be/FWZA3v4cVUY

#readandplay (540) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “I'm going over to the other side I'm happy to have not to have not Big business is very wise I'm inside free enterprise I'm adaptable” youtu.be/-Kzk1xZCiv8

Unexpected cover. I think I like it. youtu.be/hfXo2yhqjYs

Over-tuned my top E string while playing about with alt tunings and accidentally turned my acoustic guitar into a 5 string, but this led to me coming up with a new fun tuning to play with, open A minor x A E C A E The missing high string makes clean lead bends much easier on the 2nd string.

This track was recommended for one of the best recordings made of Nicky Hopkins’s on piano on the “Word In Your Ear” podcast. It’s pretty damned good. youtu.be/Sd0357IsE9k

“tracked”

#LookAndSee 259 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Looking out my window What do I see A world full of people All looking at me Most of them got headache It's no place to be Few of them are happy How can't you see why I want to be a tree” youtu.be/uukM5A8GwKE

Royal Mail Tracked 24 may as well be renamed Royal Mail Sometime This Week If You Are Lucky.

“9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the unperturbed ground state of caesium 133 atoms” Alexa could’ve #timed it better I’d asked her to give me a second To hide incriminating evidence Before opening my door to the cops #vss365

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 25 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky A bonus track on the remastered CD of “Baby’s Got A Gun”, the Only Ones’ third and final studio album. This session version of the cautionary heroin paean “The Big Sleep” is louche yet yearning. youtu.be/sFCzaQIv7Nc

They do not respect Halligan’s authoritah! lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Today’s life lesson: If you ever want your chips thoroughly pissed on then just get yourself a mortgage advisor.

#readandplay (539) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No need to run and hide It's a wonderful, wonderful life” youtu.be/u1ZoHfJZACA

“Staying #relevant ” You limbo below the bars Others walk around #vss365

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 24 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Needed a Bunnymen track and this is a good one. Originally the B-side of “Silver”. “Call it a day When night becomes our mad escape Forgetting the things you mean to say When all the right words come too late and Everything falls out of place”

#B-SidesandBonusTracks Day 23 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky An extra track on the much missed Terry’s wonderful but underheard album “Home”. It’s got Blur’s Damon Albarn on vocals, ex-Bunnymen Les Pattison on bass and ex-Smiths Craig Gannon on guitar. youtu.be/W5zwYD7wdig

#LookAndSee (258) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “My wife lies down on the beach She's sucking a peach She's out of reach Of the waves that crash on the sand Where my dead wife stands Holding my hand Now my wife can't swim But neither could she And deep in the sea She's waiting for me”

New (second hand) toy. The Polyend Tracker Mini. 16 tracks of samples and virtual instruments in something with roughly the XY form factor of a Kindle even if it’s a lot thicker. Think it’ll be a lot of fun to play with, especially as it has a good built in mic for sampling on the fly.

#readandplay (538) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Shiny, shiny Shiny…” youtu.be/GiobySgFP2s

“Congratulations everyone, we can finally reveal the cloning process has been a complete success and although it has resulted in spawning three producers instead of one writer please remember it is only phase one. We are still on track for creating a team full of Jamie Carraghers by 2042.”

If anyone is seeking a billion dollar invention to work on - make a drop in boiler replacement that swaps gas for electric but is efficient and smart enough to cost the same to run (without having to fit anything like extra insulation or solar panels) and allow people to keep existing radiators.

Listening to this and it's my sort of Sunday mood music. Some of it reminds me a little of Frank Zappa for some reason minus loud guitars and his daft vocals.

Andy Garcia is going to be in Landman! * message ends *

Gone to Wegovy from Mounjaro because hadn’t noticed how much Mounjaro would cost per month at high doses. By the time it gets to 15ml it’s £310! Wegovy still £200 at highest doses. Eek! Just hope my body gets on with semaglutide as well as it has tirzepatide. Wish I could get it on the NHS.

“…after the meeting he gifted the President with a golden bonesaw”. Harry Shearer’s weekly world news podcast “Le Show” is always worth a listen.

Climate science deniers won’t say it If you ignore man made climate change Stopping pollution from fossil fuels Replacing that with clean renewable energy Is an #achievable goal that would benefit the world They just don’t want it to affect their profiteering It’s a clean little secret #vss365

#LookAndSee (257) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Penetrating voices going through my head I haven't listened to a thing they've said Always there waiting with the answers Won't suffer the consequences Torn between the two … Don't dictate Don't dictate Don't dictate Dictate To me”

#musicinmusic #Musicchallenge Post a song which references music in any way. This is a pretty clever short throwaway song as the chords change as they’re named in the lyrics. youtu.be/Lh1tLo47VyM

After Mani died I watched a number of Stone Roses videos and since then the YouTube algorithm has thrown up delights like “How to survive if Britain suddenly loses power”. (It’s talking about gas and electric, everyone knows the UK lost global power 100 years ago.) Maybe it’s the Ian Brown factor?

#readandplay (537) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Everybody has been burned before Everybody knows the pain” youtu.be/l4ra2DxBq2U

Just found out from my mortgage broker that I now can’t look at 21 year mortgages and it’ll have to be a 16 year one instead. So gone from excited about semi detached places bigger than I’m renting to researching ugly shoeboxes. Oh well at least it’d be my own ugly shoebox.

Two items on forthcoming budgets from the BBC site. One from the day before the Kwasi Kwarteng mini budget in 2022 and the other a few day before Rachel Reeves’s budget. Spot the difference. (btw I grabbed the mini budget one from the Wayback Machine archive and it didn’t bring a photo with it)

“You’re hiding your love it’s barely #measurable “ “It is cold in here” #vss365

England’s main problem is our team is completely Head-less. #TheAshes

Not eaten meat for 32 years but in that time I’ve never had a primarily plant based diet. I’d have a pizza, curry, quorn pie etc and masses of cheese and the like. Well I’ve been on a weight loss jab now for 2 weeks and eating mainly salads and I’m really starting to feel less shagged out each day.

#B-SidesandBonusTracks 22 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Mani’s death had me spin old tracks to remember the good stuff. Apparently the prior Roses bassist quit as he couldn’t lock with Reni, who’d never play drums on a song the same way twice, so he held no malice for Mani. Seems like no-one did. RIP

#readandplay (536) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “I've got a wife and three kids you know They'll tell you I'm straight, at least I think so I'm as honest as the day is long The longer the daylight, the less I do wrong Now pass the blame and don't blame me Just close your eyes and count to three”

Not sure if Mani played on this Small Faces cover, the 1997 release date suggests so though that’s never definitive as it depends when it was recorded, but it’s pretty good anyway. youtu.be/RLV1EQgc7j8

#ComfortFoodInASongOrMovie It’s a nice day for a rice pudding

iOS’s google app suggested I read this. I presume this article was generated by AI. Either way it’s one of the worst written things I’ve ever read. www.reteuro.co.uk/21-164039-hy...

I think it’s clear that the big winner from this test is going to be Bunbury Wildlife Park. Hope they’re staffed up for the invasion of people with time to kill. #TheAshes

So after my toe in the water buying a few shares a couple of weeks ago it’s going fantastically. I have appeared to turn money into something almost perfectly resembling its absence.

Stokes has five. Amazing!

118/7 Prepare the automobile

Hope everyone’s been enjoying the first day of The Ashes. Bowlers on top and drama with every ball. youtu.be/vy-WU7RPxEw

No need to look up the #specific gravity I can tell from everything you do and say How much denser you are than water #vss365

#LookAndSee (256) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “Hello hello sad angel Have you come to fight the war?” youtu.be/seBEkVctKSc